Return from the dead zone

I'm back from the dead.  Well, dead as in dead telephone line anyway. Our phone line has been out since Thursday morning and I have not been able to connect to the Internet or what-have-you, and therefore have not been able to post.  I have survived very well.   Verizon thought they fixed it Friday, they thought they fixed it Monday, but today the telephone actually works again.  Hooray! Hooray!

The good news is that they have discovered greater troubles on my line and have to trace it back through the town.  I have service in the meantime.  Perhaps this will solve the fuzziness, static, buzzing and occasional dropped lines we get here!

I still want to upgrade to some kind of higher speed line someday, but we have to rewire the basement for new cable wiring before that can happen.  It will happen, but when????? when I think of it at a practical time to call the electrician or am not crazy with other activities.

Knitting Progress during the Missing Days:

To begin, nothing has been completed, not that I haven't tried.

POSH
Posh has been completed and assembled, at least as far as knitting with the yarn called posh is concerned.  In a desperate attempt to finish in September I worked frantically only to discover that I did not have the right size crochet hook to finish the edges!!  In fact I don't have a hook anywhere near the right size.   Yet another unfinished project.

Did I run right out and look for a crochet hook?  No.  There is no store that close.  Did I call up and order one?  No.  I hoped to go by the new LYS today, but canceled all my plans to sit here and watch the TelCo repair man come and go.   I did get both freezers defrosted while I waited though.

TESLA
I am knitting on Tesla again.  I tried it on and decided that I needed to add more shaping through the waist and torso and so have added a few more decreases.  The fabric does not have a  lot of give and it kind of bags on the string I used for trying on.  Having side seams would have added a bit of structure but the yarn probably would have sagged between them.  Hopefully the sleeves and the neckline shaping will work as well.  It is really a guessing game as I go, but that is what makes knitting fun, if slow.

SOCK
I have overcome SSS and started the second sock.  I have almost 1 inch of ribbing knit, not great progress I know, but I haven't really devoted that much time to it.  At 84 stitches around on tiny size 0 needles it is not a fast project.

MISCELLANEOUS OTHER PROJECTS
I knit a swatch with a sample of Austerman Labella which I got from Elann.  I like the fabric I knit and it would make a great lightweight cardigan.  That was my car project coming home from Pittsfield/Hillsdale on Sunday.  We went to dinner at Aubergine after our last Pittsfield concert and I needed something to knit in the dark.  Neither Tesla nor sock would have been appropriate, Labella really wasn't appropriate either as it was hard to feel the stitches.  Still, a passable swatch was created.  I have been thinking about it.  I know that yarn went on sale this morning but as I had no phone service at that time I haven't checked the status of the yarn at Elann.  It is not like I am going to run out of knitting projects anytime in the near future.

Comments

[Liana]

I just ordered the Labella for a cardigan, and it came today! It is wonderfully light. I did a swatch, and added in some of the SR Kertzer Fiore for a stripe, which is great. Probably will only have one stripe near the bottom, and then a shell in Fiore.